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32

Thu, 20 May 2010 20:33:00 +0000

On Saturday I turned 32. I haven’t been able to sit down for ten minutes and scribble the “mandatory” blog entry, a sign that I’m extremely busy (luckily not only due to academic and professional reasons; the social part of the problem is very significant). This year I was gifted with a costumes Festa de l’Horta being held on the very same day as my birthday, and it was memorable (in many ways).

Add an unexpected climbing evening on Friday, and getting to see my fantastic 2 year old niece Vida, who came from Norwich for a visit, made a great birthday weekend. I feel I’m going through a very, very sweet stage of my life; I really can’t remember the last time I generally had no big worries or black clouds all over my head. I hope it stays like this for a while…

31

Fri, 15 May 2009 17:16:00 +0000

So, today I turn 31. Fortunately I’ve had a year to learn that the thirties change nothing, and looking back, I can easily say I’ve enjoyed one of the best years I remember.

Today, a bit of protesting in the Plaça de l’Ajuntament against the old menaces of the Valencian Botanical Garden, and just after that, beer time around the Cedre area.

The amount of email, Facebook stuff and calls I’ve been getting today since I woke up is impressive. Thanks everyone! ;)

30

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:57:00 +0000

And today, I finally turn 30. I’ve been grumpy about this day getting closer and closer for the last three or four years, which have passed in front of my eyes with me nearly not noticing.

The last year has had more downs than ups, and at times has been quite dark. I feel things are slowly getting better, and I spend more time looking forward than back, which certainly should help.

Tomorrow I’ll hold a small party at home with some friends, but the big and proper event will be in September, when five or six people in our colla, born in 1978, will celebrate our 30^th birthday, in a massive, weekend-long party already dubbed La festa dels excessos. You shouldn’t miss this one!

Thanks to the many people who have phoned, texted or emailed me already. It reminds me that I’m surrounded by people who love me and were there when I needed them.

29

Tue, 15 May 2007 18:31:00 +0000

Turning 29 means I’m really near the age of 30, becoming grumpy and watching how the 40’s keep getting closer and closer. Oh no!

On the more positive side, it also means I’ve been getting calls from the people who love me all day long, and I’ll celebrate with my friends tonight, at Terra. Thanks everyone!

28

Mon, 15 May 2006 18:34:00 +0000

It’s this time of the year again.

It’s a bit disappointing that I’m not going to celebrate my birthday having lots of fun somewhere in Mexico, but things tend to suck every now and then.

Still, I’ve had quite a good time this last weekend, meeting lots of friends at the Fira Alternativa de València, where I got a few old CDs I hadn’t seen around in a while, and a pair of thingies to decorate the house.

On Saturday I even went flying with my uncle on a small 4-seat airplane over València and the south. The Albufera looks fantastic in Spring from up there, even if the sky wasn’t too clear. Too bad the America’s Cup idiots were out on the sea and the air route we wanted to take along the Valencian coast was closed to low traffic, I guess because there were helicopters filming the stuff. Another reason to hate all this America’s Cup business.

Today, my step-sister also gave birth to a child, with whom I now share my birthday. Fun :)

27

Sun, 15 May 2005 20:01:00 +0000

Ok, it’s this day again. I feel like last time happened very recently. This last year has been full of new experiences.

Just two weeks before turning 26 I got my current job at the Conselleria de Cultura to work on LliureX. This has been my first “real job”, so there have been quite a lot of experiences involved.

LliureX probably meant the end of my very active triathlon activities. Not long after starting there, demotivation appeared and I started to train less and less, until, in Oxford, I decided I would try to do a “different” season this year. The truth is that I haven’t tried regularly at all, and still haven’t participated in any competition.

Oxford takes me to the third of the big events of the last year. From not having travelled too much in my life, to a sudden burst of travel opportunities throughout the year. It started with Canonical inviting me to their first “official” conference in Oxford, for two weeks over August. I also was in Manresa for a few days during the summer. In December, I was happy to be invited to the second Ubuntu Conference, this time in Mataró, making the travelling not so exciting (just about 400 kilometres away :) but the conference itself was very nice, including Deaths in a bag my first experience with the Ubuntu virus, and the very early morning runs with the incredible kiko.

The 5th of March I went with Carlos to London, for more fun with the Launchpad/Rosetta people. Soon after, on late March, I took my first vacation in years when I went with Brande and Núria to the Telemark, in Norway, where I spent a fantastic week. A full blog entry on that is still being scribbled, *sigh*. Soon after I was hopping into a plane to Sydney, after a crazy travel planning. Before all of this fun I had been a handful of times outside of Spain, so I guess this year really made a difference in that regard.

Other big things happening during the year were me finally moving out to a flat with two friends, now that my economic independence let me do it. The lack of triathlon training, and the free time this provided, might have had something to do with the recent improvements in my relations with the other gender, which has had me quite happy for a few months now.

I’m not looking forward to getting closer and closer to being 30 years old, but if next year is going to be as good as this one, I’ll have little to moan about…

26

Sat, 15 May 2004 13:40:00 +0000

I’m getting old…